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Ukraine wants to enlist British help in rebuilding roads, the German-Ukrainian Fund will provide money for private-sector development, and the government sees potential for investment in green energy, but with a caveat

•Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has invited British
companies to take part in rebuilding Ukrainian roads and developing
its transportation network, Interfax Ukraine reported. Omelyan said
that Ukraine is extremely interested in establishing European road
standards and that international companies' interest in entering the
Ukrainian market has risen significantly.

•Oschadbank and the German-Ukrainian Fund signed a deal that will
provide the bank with a credit line to finance micro-, small- and
medium-sized enterprises, multiple sources reported. The bank will
also receive help in developing products and modernizing the credit
process for these types of businesses. The bank has not specified the
size of the credit line.

•The State Property Fund is postponing privatization of regional
power companies until a pending bill on the electricity market
becomes law, Interfax Ukraine reported. The fund is preparing shares
in six regional power companies for privatization. Parliament
approved the bill on first reading Sept. 22.

•Ukraine's renewable energy market in will
amount to $16 billion by 2020, but investors need guarantees if they
are to direct their money to opportunities in Ukraine, agency
Chairman Serhiy Savchuk said as reported by Ukrinform. Savchuk said
potential investors want to see financial stability and “normal
regulatory activities.”

•Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport will complete the year with
net profit of more than $45 million, Prime Minister Volodomyr
Groysman was quoted by Ukrinform as saying. He added that new
regional airports have come online in Lviv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia,
Chernivtsi, Rivne, Kryvyi Rih and Zhytomyr.

•The
shadow vodka market could grow by 15 percentage points to 65 percent
in 2017, Ukrvodka said as reported by Interfax Ukraine. The head of
the association said the number of poisoning deaths from consumption
of fake vodka is on the rise, and he expressed frustration with
parliament's decision to boost excise duties by 20 percent instead of
the initially discussed 12 percent, adding that government revenues
from a series of alcohol tax increases has not met expectations.

•A
continuing excess of deaths over births, the result of falling
fertility rates and still high adult male mortality rates, and the
exodus of many to work abroad means that the population of Ukraine
will fall by 20 percent by the mid-2030s, demographers say, Golos
reported.

•Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko and vice president of the China Road
and Bridge Corp. Du Fei signed an agreement that provides for
cooperation in several projects of construction and reconstruction of
transportation infrastructure, Ukrinform reported.

•Ukrtelecom is raising the cost of its rate plans for land-line
telephone service between 18 and 23 percent starting Jan. 1, making
telephony more expensive for businesses, multiple sources reported.

•The government forecast for grain exports from Ukraine in the
2016-17 marketing year (July 2016-June 2017) to a record 41.6 million
tons, Agriculture Minister Taras Kutoviy said, as reported by Unian.

•Bank losses in the January-November period fell
by 67 percent year over year to $719 million, Unian reported, citing
the National Bank of Ukraine.

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